The depth below is what the role runs on. We expect you to have earned it by operating this infrastructure yourself earlier in your career, because customers can tell the difference between someone who has run it and someone who has read about it.
- 5+ years in infrastructure or platform engineering, SRE, architecture, or field and solutions engineering roles; prior "forward deployed," field engineering, or professional services experience a plus
- Must have Unix & Linux administrator experience
- Deep Kubernetes expertise (CKA/CKS or equivalent), grounded in having run clusters in production rather than in a lab
- Strong command of enterprise storage: Fibre Channel SAN (zoning, WWPNs, fabric login and path behavior), iSCSI, NVMe/TCP, NAS protocols, dm-multipath, LVM, and array-side provisioning, masking, and mapping
- Real understanding of compute and server hardware: bare metal provisioning and lifecycle, BIOS, firmware and driver management, HBA and NIC selection, NUMA and CPU/memory topology, local NVMe layout and endurance
- Production-grade virtualization knowledge, ideally VMware vSphere and ESXi (datastores, VMFS, vVols, HA and DRS behavior, resource contention), plus an understanding of KubeVirt as a migration target
- Practical data center networking: VLANs and trunking, MTU and jumbo frames, bonding and LACP, L2 versus L3 boundaries, routing, load balancer integration, and how partitions, congestion, and asymmetric paths present in a distributed storage system
- Solid Linux systems background extending to the block and device layers: udev, kernel and sysctl tuning, systemd, I/O scheduling, and performance triage with tools like iostat, blktrace, and perf
- Familiarity with cloud and managed Kubernetes platforms (EKS, AKS, GKE, OpenShift) is useful, since many customers run a hybrid footprint, but on-prem depth is what this role is built around
- Working understanding of customer development environments (CI/CD, application deployment patterns, dev and test workflows) sufficient to reason about platform needs beyond just the storage layer
- Prior experience with Portworx, other CSI-based storage platforms, or enterprise storage vendors (Pure Storage, NetApp, Dell, etc.) is highly valued
- Genuine relationship-building instincts. Trust is earned with the engineers and leads you work beside and has to extend to the senior leaders above them; this is a relationship you sustain, not a project you close out. Comfort running both a technical whiteboard session and a live war-room call, and staying in touch between fires
- The judgment to know when to advise and when to step back. You'll spend more time shaping decisions and teaching than typing at a customer's keyboard
- Strong technical writing skills. The artifacts you leave behind are as important as the advice you gave in the room.
Salary ranges are determined based on role, level and location. For positions open to candidates in multiple geographical locations, the base salary range is reflective of the labor market across the applicable locations.
This role may be eligible for incentive pay and/or equity.
There is no application deadline and we accept applications on an ongoing basis until the job is filled.
The annual base salary range is
$208,000—$305,000 USD
What you can expect from us
- Innovation: We celebrate those who think critically, like a challenge, and aspire to be trailblazers.
- Growth: We give you the space and support to grow along with us and to contribute to something meaningful. We have been named Fortune's Best Workplaces in Technology™, Fortune's Best Workplaces in the Bay Area™, and certified as a Great Place to Work®!
- Team: We build each other up and set aside ego for the greater good.
And because we understand the value of bringing your full and best self to work, we offer a variety of perks to manage a healthy balance, including flexible time off, wellness resources, and company-sponsored team events. Check out http://benefits.everpuredata.com/ for more information.